We cannot let there be one set of rules for the vast majority of hard-working citizens, and another set of rules for the elite, who, when they screw up, are handed one more gift on a silver platter. No more! Not again! The rich must pay for their own bailout.

Some lenders might have lowered their “own mortgage borrowers’ home values” by continuing to make sup-prime loans to unqualified borrowers in their community—after having “knowledge” the community had high numbers of mortgage defaults and foreclosures.

If implemented, new guidelines will allow the FBI to interview you, your friends and your family under a false pretext.

The FBI could recruit secret informants and have them infiltrate peaceful protest groups.
Investigations based on little more than race, ethnicity or religion would be allowed.
The worst part is that we have good reason to believe the FBI has been violating its internal guidelines all along.

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Barack Obama does not live by his own admonitions -- to be his brother's keeper. His own half-brother lives in squalor in a hovel in Nairobi, Kenya. Senator Obama does nothing to help the 26-year-old man, who lives a dissolute life, where his health and welfare are seriously threatened every day.

John McCain appears to be a far more devoted neocon than George W. Bush ever was. Could this be what uber-neocons like William Kristol (or McCain himself) mean when they refer to McCain as a "maverick"?
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